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ARREDAMENTI PORTO
For further information: Arredamenti Porto; Punta Molo Vecchio; 16128 Genova (Italia); tel. +39 010 2770410; fax +39 010 2461103; website www.arredamentiporto.it; e mail info@arredamentiporto.it. |
Arredamenti Porto is situated in the Genova Old Port area. It is a company
founded in 1987 which through the years consolidated its name for work on board
super-yachts, both in Italy and abroad. Arredamenti Porto, as its name implies,
mainly deals in boat furnishing, but due to an increase in requests by yacht
owners and with the development of new work techniques and know-how, this
Genoese company has organised itself to offer any kind of boatyard services such
as repairs, careening, maintenance, refitting, painting and metallic carpentry.
The quality and efficiency of Arredmenti Porto has made them famous worldwide
and owners from all over the globe land at the Molo Vecchio safe in the
knowledge that they are leaving their yacht in reliable hands. "Baboon", a
splendid, over 60 metre, three mast yacht built in Sweden was brought to Genoa
specially for refitting, as was "Istranka" a M/Y launched in the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia in 1952.
As mentioned above, the quality of the work
carried out by the company has earned them international fame, as for example in
the case of the owner of "Santa Cruz Tres", who requested that Arredamenti Porto
staff be transferred to a French boatyard to carry out refitting, renovation
work on the decks and rails in teak and the installation of a new air
conditioning system.
Even some of the most prestigious Italian boatyards
commission Arredamenti Port with the interiors for their yachts. From 1994 to
date, the company has collaborated with Perini Navi on the interiors of
"Thetis", "Phyrne", "Legacy", "Salperton", "Atmosphere" and other super-yachts,
while the company has worked on the interior furnishings of "Rominta" and
"Benedetta"for the Baglietto yard. Mention must go to a few of the many jobs
carried out by Arredamenti Porto on pleasure boats, especially on the 63 metre
M/Y "Shahnaz", which had its bridge deck extended to create a new area for
guests while works in the stern for crew quarters were also done. The figures
say it all: before this work was carried out "Shahnaz" had an on-board capacity
of 40 people, now it can easily play host to more than sixty. Even some large
companies like Costa Lines, Lloyd Sardegna, Tirrenia, Linea Messina and Explorer
Sh. CO-USA contract out work to Arredamenti Porto for their passenger ships.
Research and development of new super lightweight materials has meant that this
Genoese company is able to completely refit ferries and fast yachts to HSC-
Unitas 1995 standards. Thanks to know-how gained in the sector of boat
furnishings, this Genoa based company has developed new panels using an
aluminium honeycomb structure, directly taken from aeronautics, covered by fine
wooden strips. These panels are characterised by their extreme lightweight in
proportion to their size, compared with those in solid wood. In this sector the
interiors of the "Guizzo"made by Cantieri Navali Rodriguez are especially
prestigious; this is the first European built ferry able to carry four hundred
passengers and one hundred and fifty cars at a speed of 40 knots.
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